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[opensuse-programming] tee() and splice()
  • From: "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:12:45 -0500
  • Message-id: <87f94c370901061612o424af858ma749e693c6c433e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Just came across these new systems calls. (as of 2.6.17).

They allow data to very efficiently be copied from one file descriptor
to another. (ie. they bypass userspace and do the whole thing in the
kernel).

Very cool for anyone moving lots of data around at very high speed.

Greg
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